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Jazz And Life Quotes

You are the music while the music lasts.

Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

For me, music and life are all about style.

Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1989). “Miles, the autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

"Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz (2017). “Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments”, p.2, Hal Leonard Corporation